Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase got a boost today with a pledge of collaboration by Nigerian police officers working for the Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom.

The Nigerian cops in the UK are grouped as Nigeria Police Forum.

Representatives of the forum met the IGP in Abuja today to to fashion-out ways to support policing in Nigeria.

The visit was attended by Mr. Robert Hunter (Police Adviser, British High Commission), Mr Tom Outwaite (Police Adviser, British High Commission Abuja) and Mrs Matagrawa Nurata from the Ministry of Police Affairs in Abuja.

IGP Solomon Arase, NPM, fdc, in his remarks stated that the visit is a fall-out of an earlier trip to the Metropolitan Police in UK, and promised to create an enabling environment for fusion of ideas with the group to advance the intelligence and technological base of the Nigeria Police.